Joe Biden is running for a second term as US President despite all criticism of his old age. This also has to do with his likely competitor Trump.
US President Joe Biden sees his predecessor Donald Trump’s renewed candidacy for the White House as a driving force for his own re-election campaign.
“If Trump didn’t run, I’m not sure I would run,” Biden said at a fundraiser in the Boston area. “We can’t let him win.”
American democracy is at stake in the 2024 election. Because former President Trump and his supporters are out to “destroy” democratic institutions, Biden warned.
Martial warning about Trump election
During the election campaign, Trump described himself as his supporters’ “retribution” incarnate and, with a view to his political opponents, vowed to eradicate “vermin” from the country if he returned to the White House, the president said.
In addition, his predecessor was the “only defeated candidate” in US history who did not recognize the results of an election. When Trump’s supporters stormed the Capitol on January 6, 2021, he followed the events on television in the dining room next to the Oval Office and “watched as they threatened his own vice president,” Biden said.
Trump’s deputy Mike Pence, in his role as Senate President at the time, oversaw the certification of Biden’s election victory in Congress that day.
Trump seeks revenge
The US President praised the “powerful voice” of former Republican MP Liz Cheney, who warned that the US would “sleepwalk into a dictatorship” if former US President Trump, who was voted out of office in 2020, returned to the White House.
Trump was defeated by Biden in the 2020 presidential election, but to this day refuses to admit his defeat and spreads the lie of election fraud. As a result, he has to answer in court in several criminal cases – a first in US history.
Last year he even called for the constitution to be undermined on the social media platform he co-founded. He wrote: “A massive fraud of this nature and magnitude allows the repeal of all rules, regulations and articles, including those in the Constitution.”
Worry about old age
Trump leads the field of candidates for the Republican presidential nomination by a wide margin in internal party polls.
Given Biden’s age, there are increasing doubts about his fitness among the US population, surveys show. The president recently turned 81 years old, his possible opponent Trump is 77 years old. His nomination as the Democratic candidate is still considered secure.
A new president will be elected in the USA on November 5, 2024.